On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm... responding to my own emails... > > >Maybe they > > mean it won't boot when it's put on the HD? > > Yeah it looks like that is it. I went through the install and when i > rebooted after making the changes in OpenFirmware I saw a OS 9 looking > screen for a second, but it when ahead and loaded OS X anyway. > > > Is there any way to boot the cd using the benh kernel but start the text > > mode install? > > Figured it out. :) > > Since I was able to go through the install, here's what I found: > > 1.) I had to manually format the Bootstrap partition i had to create or > the bootloader wouldn't install. >
Did you start with Apple_Free space on the drive? If you do, the bootstrap normally gets created before the partitioning step. > 2.) My video card was incorrectly detected as a GeForce 2 chipset when it > is a GeForce 4. It gave me the same invalid argument error that i was > getting before when i was trying to use the GUI installer. When i > explicitly told it that it was a GeForce 4, X started correctly, but after > i pushed the ok button on the dialog in the test my machine hung. > Not good. If you get the machine up and running the output of lspcidrake would be useful. > 3.) The installer skips the package selection. > Known issue with 9.0 text install. Things should be much different on the next ISO. > 4.) After i finished putting my account information in for my pppoe ADSL > connection the installer appeared to hang. I went to some of the other > terminals to see what was going on and on one it was printing the same two > line message over and over again. It was going to fast to make out what > it was saying. I had to power off the machine. > Not sure what's going on there. I haven't actually tried that piece of the install. Again, if you can get the machine up, and ddebug.log is available, I'd be interested in it. (root's home dir, if it made it there) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
